A kind of very fine white linen cloth, so named from Cambray or Cameryk, in Flanders, where it is still the chief manufacture.
“He hath ribbons of all the colours of the rainbow; inkles, caddises, cambricks, and lawns.”—Shakespeare: Winter’s Tale, iv. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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